| Friday Note: The words to this song were first written down as a piece of poetry when I was about 14. I was wondering how I'd look back on the present at the time as I got older. I was thinking would I remeber all the little details or would I just discard them.I wrote this also after splitting up with my first real girlfriend and at the time I was absolutely gutted! The words are quite childish but they make me smile so they wont change. It's Getting Harder: Obviously its a song about lost love of some type. But the verses were always an improvisation until the words stuck in my mind. I get really annoyed when people look at me like I just p***ed on their fireworks, and I havent done anything. I also get really frustrated when I cant do right and thats basically what its about. There are some other little stories hidden in there like the 'I cannot sing today' line which is just personally sardonic as I hate the sound of my own voice. Sunday: A song which I wrote to cheer someone up initially but by the end of the song I ended up being really into them in a big way. It was a joke how I was always providing everything and yet 'she' kept taking. It is quite the other way round, and I hope she realises that because I could be in some trouble! Left Or Right: A metaphysical song about not knowing which way to turn in life/on the way to blackpool/in a relationship/in a crowd of strangers. A song which is open to interpretation. Feelings Have Colour: when I wrote this song, I was feeling really down. I couldn't understand why I was feeling like this and the only way I could describe it was to just put it into colour because it had no words. I think at the time I was frustrated about trying so hard to be what I thought I had to be and deep down not really wanting to be anything yet - I couldn't find my own mind inside of myself because I'd lost my own thoughts, (sort of ). Aggghh it's happening again!!? Questions: This was when I got annoyed at people being amateur theologans and pressuming that nature is always right - well humans are part of nature but we aren't always right. It actually happened when I observed the Spice Girls... they really pissed me off, so I wrote the song. There are also a few religious references in there too - as there are in lots of my songs. Time Away: This is about a girl who I spent some time away with. If she thought hard about the lyrics I think she'd realise but I mumble the lyrics on purpose when she's around - mature. I wrote this song as a way of getting her out of my mind at the time - it didn't work. But some time away from her helped a little bit. ginger fingers. Soul Burns: Not about cheap trainers. Or druids. With goats. Its actually, shock, horror, written about a female. I know. Im a desperate dodgy geezer. But this person was (sorry still is ) really special to me and really its just a retrospective look at past times and wishing I could go back. Time For A Change: 's about Liz that. So Long: 's about Liz also. My ex-girlfriend. Because we never had any money we used to just walk around town... it was winter and it was always raining, so when I remembered her after splitting up I always remembered her face dripping with rain. It was good though. So there. Plastic Air: 's about Liz again. This is about opposites - f**k off Mark - how she had to be someone that she wasn't a lot of the time. At least that's how I saw it. Really it was about how she was forced to be older than she was. "Melt it down and mould anew" was how I wished she'd get rid of what was keeping her alive, (the plastic air), and let something else sustain her. I didn't know what - I wanted to, but nevermind. My verse, thats me, was about my mum annoying me loads. So i spat my dummy out. My Room Feeling: This song is about being alone but being happy for it. A bit of peace and quiet. I know i sound like some minging 70 year old truckie '30 years man and boy' but I like the quiet times. I am a boring fool. I also put a bit of anger in there because the song was really boring. The other theme is believing in something without being able to say why. You just know you are right, and you want to be accepted. Ask Nick about that one. The crust. All Night Awake: This song is dedicated to a real nice set of words by Nick Cave. Basically its my response to his questions and sentiments. I really like the way he writes openly and simply. His songs might be theatrical in tune but the words seem honest. No matter how hard I cant be as honest as him. Im not a massive fan but Im getting there. |
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